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==Demise== Lee officially disbanded the Dami Mission in November 1992, and apologised whilst he was in prison awaiting sentencing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-03-mn-1260-story.html |title=World IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : Leading 'Rapture' Church Disbands |date=November 3, 1992 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=December 27, 2012}}</ref> On 4 December 1992, he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to two years in prison<ref name=swindle>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-05-mn-1389-story.html |title=Seoul Sect Leader Gets Two Years for Fraud |date=December 5, 1992 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=December 27, 2012}}</ref><ref name=ind>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/doomsday-preacher-jailed-1561574.html |title=Doomsday preacher jailed |date=December 5, 1992 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=December 27, 2012}}</ref> because he had collected $4.4 million from his followers to purchase [[Bond (finance)|bonds]] that did not mature until after October 28.<ref name=swindle/> <!---Please add paragraph about how this mission is linked to Last Thursdayism. See here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/talk.origins/RdzI7V8qyvg/MfSxPYWPj7QJ for why.---> In 2011, Lee, along with [[Dorothy Martin (prophet)|Dorothy Martin]], [[Pat Robertson]], [[Elizabeth Clare Prophet]], [[Credonia Mwerinde]], and [[Harold Camping]], who have also made predictions about the end of the world, were jointly awarded the satirical [[Ig Nobel Prize]] for "teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/sep/30/wasabi-fire-alarm-ig-nobel-prize |title=Wasabi fire alarm scoops Ig Nobel prize for Japanese scientists |last1=Jha |first1=Alok |date=September 30, 2011 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=December 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201111/ignobels.cfm |title=Ig Nobels May be not so Crazy After All |last=Lucibella |first=Michael |work=[[American Physical Society]] |access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref>
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